Wisdom of the Masters
๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ค๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ ~ ๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐ข ๐๐๐ฒ๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐
22 Feb 2022
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Chapter 1: How can we open ourselves to listening during meditation?
Let's just open ourselves to listening.
As we settle into the moment, fully coming into the presence, to be connected to our bodies just as they are right now. Listening, being mindful of whatever's presenting itself physically mentally whatever's coming in through the sound door through the ears through the nose
If we approach meditation with the attitude of allowing whatever arises to arise, whatever ceases to cease, then we don't struggle with anything.
We don't go into battle with anything. then it's an easeful, free-flowing meditation.
And the establishment of this attitude from the outset is all important. It sets up the very flavor of the whole meditation. So we go in with this attitude of complete openness and acceptance.
Simply being interested to allow whatever comes and to allow all that goes.
And Ajahn Chah spoke about the metaphor of being in the forest, sitting by a quiet still lake and just sitting quietly in stillness. And then when one was able to sit quietly and still, all sorts of creatures would come to the lake to drink. Many strange creatures would come that he'd never seen before.
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Chapter 2: What attitude should we adopt for effective meditation?
And he would simply sit
and watch as they went about their business, having a drink, doing whatever, and they would leave. And the quieter and the more still he sat
then these shy creatures would come to feel free to do what they needed to do and then leave. And he would simply watch without any interference whatsoever. And it's the same with our minds. If we can simply settle to sitting and watching, all sorts of things will come to the surface. We don't need to do anything Just watch. Don't need to fear.
Be still.
And if we can simply allow and remain quiet, then all sorts of strange things may arise. We're giving it the space to arise, to come. But we're not interfering or labelling or judging, or having a view or an opinion about it.
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Chapter 3: How does the metaphor of a still lake relate to meditation?
We're not labelling it as good or bad, as right or wrong. Is better or worse. Everything's allowed to come and visit. And our job is simply to sit. As if we were sitting in a forest. Still. Quiet.
Just watching. Just listening. Awake and mindful.
and maintaining that sense of inner peace with whatever arises.
And the one thing we know about life, about our experiences, is that everything is uncertain. Anything can and will arise Our job is not to go looking for anything in particular.
To have hopes or expectations, desires or demands about how things should be according to our perceptions and views of the world.
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Chapter 4: What does it mean to simply watch our thoughts and feelings?
Because if we do that, we're bound to be disappointed and to experience inner conflict. Everything that arises is unpredictable, unstable, out of our control.
And the more we see this with wisdom, the more we recognize the nature of reality within the conditioned realm, the more at peace we become with it.
This is the nature of the conditioned realm.
Changeful. Uncertain, unpredictable, impermanent, out of our control. Everything, without exception, is of this nature. to change.
This is the wisdom aspect of the practice
Firstly, we establish the mindfulness, which is the wakefulness, the knowing of what is actually arising and ceasing.
And the wisdom aspect is to know the nature of this. It's what's called Sati Sampajanya.
Sati means mindfulness. Sampajanya is the discernment, the wisdom.
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Chapter 5: How can we recognize the nature of our awareness?
So each moment in meditation, each moment in life, we can establish Sati Sampajanya.
Mindfulness with wisdom, with full comprehension.
That whatever is arising is of the nature to cease, to change.
But what is this knowing aspect of the mind?
Have you ever asked yourself that? Have you ever looked fully, directly to recognize that stable Dharma It is only because there is this stable, fully aware, fully knowing aspect that we can know this change. This stable, unchanging awareness has been with us from the very beginning. But we may not have recognized it. When we are drowning,
when we are caught up in the changing, unstable events, then we lose sight of the stable Dharma.
That which knows that things come and go. That which knows itself.
That doesn't come and go. That's been the constant thread
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Chapter 6: What is the importance of understanding impermanence in meditation?
throughout all our conscious, subconscious, unconscious, experiencing.
So I invite you all to recognize that right now, in this very moment.
To turn your attention to the awareness itself, to let whatever arises and ceases as part of this changing, unstable, phenomenal world, to simply go on doing what it does,
The sounds come and go.
The thoughts come and go. The feelings. The bodily sensations. All of that you recognize as coming and going. Just let it be in the background. And now your full attention is simply on knowing the knowing. not so much the knower because to know the knower we set up a perception of a subject but simply to know the knowing
this all-pervasive awareness. Which is kind of an oxymoron.
Because how can we know awareness when we simply are awareness?
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Chapter 7: How does shedding concepts enhance our meditation experience?
Just like it's impossible for the eyes to look at itself. But we can recognize, we can cognize through a subtle intuitive understanding.
It's not a thinking about it.
It's not an objectivizing about it. But it's what's often termed coming into the heart of awareness.
To know through the heart is to know with full awareness This stable, unchanging Dharma is the heart of awareness. It's not my awareness.
It's not your awareness.
It's not even our awareness. But it is common to all sentient beings. It doesn't differ
When we come into this absolute reality, fully recognizing it, stabilizing it, it's no different.
Your heart of awareness
And my heart of awareness is the same.
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Chapter 8: What does it mean to rest in the stable, unchanging reality?
This universal knowing that doesn't begin
and doesn't end.
This constant flow
this constant presence that we can choose to recognize or not and when not then we identify with the unstable things the conditioned, unsatisfactory. And when we get caught up in that or identified with that, we know the outcome, even if we don't know it at the time. The outcome is always stressful because there's nothing we can control, nothing we can hold on to permanently.
Everything, these bodies, these changing consciousnesses, these senses,
These objects are all in a constant state of flux and flow.
And if we grasp them and cling to them, there's only one result. and I'll leave you to determine what that result is.
But when we come back to our true home, our true nature
then we're like a rock, a mountain, unshakable, imperturbable. Nothing can move us. Nothing can disturb us. Because in this moment, when you recognize it, you sense its unshakable nature.
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